The project is about transforming a leftover basement of a residential building, located in the area of Lycabettus Hill in Athens, Greece, into a custom-designed studio apartment. The flat had a single opening into an enclosed atrium and a pair of ceiling skylights; features that our design wanted to enhance. Design concept aimed at creating an array of pocket spaces around a central partition element. A new partition wall develops within the apartment by being curved, bended, cut and penetrated. The wall forms three distinctive functional areas, the kitchen alcove, the shower curve and the desk opening, which separates the living from the sleeping area. Key custom furniture elements were designed, such as the closet, the sideboard, the bathroom vanity and the kitchenette. We chose raw materials, such as cement and glazed ceramic tiles along with unfinished plywood and black steel to counterpart the white walls.
Athens, 2018